Two of the men took off their cloths, and wrapped the materials of the bed into these, carrying them up at once.

As soon as they had gone on, Harry was slowly and carefully taken to the upper chamber, and laid down again on the bed.

Stanley took his place beside him, and the rest of the party went down to the lower room; having received the strictest orders not to show themselves near the entrance, and not to smoke until well assured that their pursuers must have passed on ahead.
The bamboos of the litter were converted into a rough ladder and, on this, Meinik took his post at the little window in the second of the lower rooms.

Owing to the immense thickness of the rock wall, he did not get an extensive view, but he could see the path by which anyone coming up through the forest would approach the temple.

It was now about half-past seven and, by this time, the pursuers might be at hand; in ten minutes, indeed, distant shouts could be heard, and Stanley at once went down and joined the men below.
He placed himself in the line of the doorway.